BRAZIL: Atlas Luis

While Brazilian
Consul-General Sebastaio Sampaio did his best to soothe with fine
words New York's unruly coffee market, President Washington Luis
Pereira de Souza of Brazil struggled in Rio de Janeiro with a coffee
crisis twice as acute, infinitely more ominous.

The country's prosperity is almost entirely dependent on coffee.
Mountains of brown beans in Brazilian coffee warehouses, the
certainty that the monopolistically raised price of coffee could not
long withstand overproduction, caused the coffee market to crack
fortnight ago (TIME, Oct. 28).